Phil Sturgeon

Mozilla Drumbeat Interview: Brad Felix

With the awesome Mozilla Drumbeat festival less than a month away, I've been talking to one of the featured participants: Brad Felix, Chief Learning Officer of Flat World Knowledge.

CodeCanyon's ExpressionEngine 2 section launches

CodeCanyon have launched their new ExpressionEngine 2 section along with a few of plugins from me. One of these is the long awaited, much anticipated Widgets module!

Power dump() on your PHP applications

Application development going a bit slowly? Take a power dump() and get right back on track. This handy little PHP function will output the what, why, when, where of your variables and help you get back on track.

Sturgeons Shittiest Company Award '10

Let's face it, none of us like dealing with big companies. Long waiting times, script reading Indian call centers, uncaring supervisors and red tape. In the last two months I have had several experiences beyond ridiculous so I thought I'd share my list of companies that have pissed me off and why.

What happened to Modular Separation?

Modular Separation for CodeIgniter is no more. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off the mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

The internet finally gets some Mojo

After several months of totally secret development and two months of private beta MojoMotor - an amazing new CMS from EllisLab - is out, and I'm finally allowed to talk about it!

BitBucket or GitHub? Use both!

Over the last few months I have seen several discussions by many developers - especially in the CodeIgniter community - about wether or not to convert their GitHub repo's over to BitBucket. I say: why not use both?

ExpressionEngine 2.0 can finally have a Rest

My first ExpressionEngine 2.0 Add-on has been released, with the amazingly imaginative name "Rest". You can use it to integrate RESTful API's into your ExpressionEngine 2.0 website. You can list Tweets, search for Digg articles, show off Flickr photographs and interact with any open RESTful API.

CodeIgniter CON 2010 coming soon

CodeIgniter Con 2010 is the first all-CodeIgniter conference and is being run in the UK. This means anyone who couldn't make it to San Francisco this month for EECI2010 will be able to "get their nerd on" with some well known CI developers.

Nerdy Adventures in America: EECI2010 US

After months of waiting the time is finally here for EECI2010 US: the ExpressionEngine & CodeIgniter Conference of 2010, held in San Fransisco. It's been 5 months since the last EECI over in Leiden, Holland but it already feels like too long.

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